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Sex has been one of the silent drivers of technology for as long as I can recall. It might not get reported much, not least because many in the media would prefer to pretend it is not important and has no impact. But the truth is the adult industry has …
According to [URL="http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/the-second-xbox-360-revealed-codename-zephyr/"]Engadget[/URL], the second version of the Xbox 360, code-named "Zephyr" has had a photo leaked from a Xbox insider. It looks quite interesting; the only picture provided was a backside of the console. It's still white, but has some extra ports on the back. It seems like Microsoft …
It is one of those headlines that makes you stop and read again, is it not? After all, surely nobody is really suggesting that if you partake in an act of virtual violence within the digital realm of a video game that you should pay a very real world penalty …
With the recent release of [URL="http://wesnoth.org/"]Wesnoth 1.2[/URL], the open-source strategy game, the game's developmet never seems to stop. It's so popular, and it's addictive to play. These days, anybody without internet access is considered to be "living in the dark ages". And with the ever-growing popularity of social networking services …
Who needs the Wiimote? ...when there's laptops. But, you say, you can't wave laptops around to control your videogame! Actually you can. Many laptops manufactured now come with motion sensors to suddenly freeze the hard disk when it gets bumped around. These sensors can be read by software, which you …
I'm always excited when I see people inventing new uses for existing devices. Linux kernel developers have been working hard, and have now added PS3 support for the Linux kernel. Sony helped by contributing patches for the machine, which have now been merged into the kernel. This will be included …
Everyone is up-in-the-arms about Nintendo's new console beating Sony's. The sales of the Wii in November (roughly 467,000) are more than double the PS3 sales (147,000), according to NPD. But what most articles about this don't talk about: the PS2 is still winning, and easily. It managed to sell 664,000 …
It seems like users are doing exactly what Nintendo intended when they created the fancy Wii controller. Users are having so much fun, they're getting carried away when playing their video games, and [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkdihGX7iWM&eurl="]literally throwing it around[/URL]. The Wii-mote, a uniquely designed game controller for Nintendo's Wii game console, works …
Just as the games console which has the honor of being at once both one of the most innovative entertainment devices to arrive in our homes and the most stupidly named, the Nintendo Wii, arrives on the market so a lawsuit starts that attacks the very heart of that innovation: …
All 3 major game consoles have been released -- Microsoft's Xbox 360, Nintendo's Wii, and Sony's Playstation 3. Out of all of these, the [URL="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlebusiness.aspx?type=technology&storyID=nN29388999&from=business"]PlayStation 3 appears to be losing[/URL]. Why? The previous generation console, the PS2, dominated consoles created by Microsoft and Nintendo. The answer lies in the companies …
Sometimes, I get wind of something that has all the makings of an April Fool’s Day prank: but not often in September. Which is why I took a second look at the story about an IBM supercomputer in the making, with ambitions to break the petaflop speed barrier, which will …
What Caused Microsoft to Create DirectX10? It all started with the Windows Error Reporting Tool. Microsoft was collecting hundreds of Bugs per day only for its Operating System. Microsft Found out that 70% of all errors and bad user Experience in Windows XP comes from Graphic Display drivers. First, Microsft …
Sometimes, the cleverest of folk say the dumbest things. Case in point, I am sure that Dr. Maressa Hecht Orzack is very clever, as a clinical psychologist at McLean Hospital in Massachusetts you would have to assume as much. So why has she claimed that as many as 40 percent …
Rockstar Games is no stranger to controversy, after all the Grand Theft Auto series of hugely successful video games revolve around the concept of robbing and killing your way to victory. But with the confirmation that it will release the long delayed ‘Bully’ in October, originally slated for a PS2 …
After months of possible merger information it finally happens and I am surprised at the amount of money that AMD had to spend on this. This is a huge step for both companies. Currently Intel is the lead manufacturer of microprocessors, semiconductors, and graphics chips with AMD being the second …
While Intel had announced awhile back that they would be making a Core 2 Duo chip AMD said they were already working on a Quad-core. Then more recently Intel announced that they would be making a Quad-core chipset as well this year so whats the difference. Well they both are …
Who would have thunked it, the Sony PS3 has run into yet more trouble before it has even made it into the shops. Well I would have for a start, the project has been plagued with bad planning, bad marketing and bad luck since the get go. The decision to …
At [URL="http://www.supercomp.de/"]ISC2006[/URL], the 21st International Supercomputer Conference, in Dresden, Germany today an interesting announcement was made by [URL="http://www.tyan.com"]Tyan Computer[/URL]: the launch of the Personal Supercomputer. Not quite a desktop machine, it is being marketed as a deskside unit, the [URL="http://www.tyan.com/products/html/clusterservers.html"]Typhoon PSC[/URL] certainly promises to pack quite a punch. The 8 …
[URL="http://www.nintendo.com"]Nintendo[/URL] has been granted a broad stroke patent covering a “messaging service for video game systems with buddy list that displays game being played.” [URL="http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7056217.PN.&OS=PN/7056217&RS=PN/7056217"]Patent number 7056217[/URL] was originally filed way back in 2000, a whole year before the [URL="http://www.xbox.com"]Xbox [/URL]was launched, and two years before [URL="http://www.xbox.com/live"]Xbox Live[/URL] became a …
Jon Jacobs has spent $100,000 on his own Virtual Nightclub, within Online Role-Playing game "Project Entropia". The winning bid for the space station he plans to use is currently being built within the game. Project Entropia, is a virtual world, with 236,000 players, who convert real cash to in-game dollars, …
The battle between Sony’s Blu-Ray and Toshiba’s HD-DVD has been a drawn out one, with nary a sniff of resolution in sight, and has seen likely to plunge consumers back into a situation similar to the VHS v BetaMax videotape battles of the 1980s. But a recent move by HP …
There will doubtless be a lot of disappointed gamers, but it seems the Nvidia 6800 Ultra and the ATi Radeon X850XT are the 'end of the road' for AGP gamers. Those who have been waiting for updated and improved cards to arrive have been waiting in vain, it appears. Although …
A plague has swept the online universe of popular game World of Warcraft! Cities have been wiped out. Travel became a dangerous activity indeed. Online gamers returned from a nature call to find themselves amidst desolation! When Blizzard Software released the version 1.7 Patch for the online game they included …
Along with the increased availability and use of fast internet, the popularity of onlline, browser based games has risen dramatically in recent times. [url=http://www.millionsofgames.com/]Millions of Games[/url] is a new website designed to make the task of finding games an easier one. 'Millions' may be an overstatement, but at the time …
Recently, the video games industry has been subject of more scrutiny than ever before. Pressure is mounting which threatens innovation within and surrounding the industry, yet 'rogue' games developer Rockstar Games, the catalyst for much of the negative opinion, continues to thumb it's nose at public opinion. The [url=http://www.rockstargames.com/libertycitystories/gta_lcs.html]website [/url]devoted …
Being a website owner, and developer, I often get emails from companies looking to promote their new product, have me enter into their affiliate programs, or other offers. In most cases, I don’t respond, and I didn’t in this particular situation. I was, however, interested in their product. Turner Broadcasting …
For many people, the trend in desk décor recently has been to reclaim the desk space. Flat panel monitors and small form factor cases or the placement of the system unit down off the desk top has given us room to spread all the paper computers were intended to eliminate. …
In my [url=http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry276.html]previous article[/url] on this topic I made mention that.... [quote] Undue violence and gore in video games is of course a worthy topic of debate. But that debate MUST be conducted in a mature and considered fashion. There is no evidence whatsoever which conclusively demonstrates that video games …
Rockstar Games has released a game patch to counter the problemattic 'Hot Coffee' mod which landed them in hot water! The version 1.01 patch not only corrects a few game bugs, it also adds display options to suit its use on HD display devices and completely disables the 'locked' offensive …
Has the next major upheaval in PC hardware reared it’s head? Every once in a long while, a new type of component arrives which dramatically changes how we consider our computers. The development of components such as video capture cards and TV tuners have added functionality, but that functionality is …
With the ‘Hot Coffeegate’ scandal video game censorship has hit front page. Diversity in video games is under threat from such ‘notables’ as Hilary Clinton and the outspoken [url=http://www.stopkill.com/]Jack Thompson,[/url] who happily disregards the fact that most of the nonsense he spouts has been disproven by numerous studies. Whilst I’d …
The next generation of game consoles are shaping up to become a battleground between competing technologies of high capacity high definition DVD standards. The support of Sony for [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc]Blu-Ray technology[/url] in its upcoming Playstation 3 has been widely discussed. Bill Gates has now officially announced that the soon to be …
Hey there everyone. Long time no post... and that's because I just went out and bought The Sims 2 the other day, and I just have to say how much [b]I love it![/b] I'm not a gamer by any means. The only games I really ever play are simulations ... …
This is a program I created a couple of weeks ago for class using DevC++ compiler. THis program allows the user 20 tries to guess a number between 1 and 100. It keeps track of wins and losses and offfers the option to continue or quit, displaying game stats.
This is a program I created a couple of weeks ago for class using DevC++ compiler. THis program allows the user 20 tries to guess a number between 1 and 100. It keeps track of wins and losses and offfers the option to continue or quit, displaying game stats.
Well I thought u might be bored with the hangman stuff i posted a few days ago so here is a new gaming programme. well in this one all u have to do is try to guess the number correctly while running the programme. suggestions are welcome. this is not …
It's a game where u shoot from a cannon and the cannon-ball moves like a projectile and hits a target. So u will see three major things in this program: 1. Rotating a cannon; 2. How to move an object like a projectile 3. A very simple collision detection Before …
Here in the Philippines, on-line gaming is very popular with the younger people at the internet cafes. I am considering buying an established internet cafe. I will have one or two pc's with Windows, but the rest I plan on using Linux. My question is are there any limits or …
I need to learn Quest 3D. Anyone have suggestions once I have the program loaded. What is the best approach to getting a jump start? I have a programming background but not a gaming background. Thanks.
I am using glut to create my window for my game. My question is how do I remove the button that maximizes a window. For my game I don't want the player to be able to resize or maximize the window. Is there a way to control this with glut? …
i have dg965ry board ,which supports ddr2 ram ,now im planning to install a graphics card for playing gtaIV which will be da best gaming card for me ,, processor core2duo 2.4ghz
I've gone a little further with my code since the last time I posted here. Everything worked fine till the moment I started drawing in an actual 3rd dimension - the results are visible at least, but they're far from what they should look like. Instead of a pyramid and …
Well I am making an AFK Bot for a FPS game called Combat arms. What it is supposed to do is Move Up, Down, Left, and Right by itself while I am AFK. I want it to press Spacebar to jump too. I also want it to Press the Left …
Hi! I have been programming in FreeBasic for 2 years now, and decided to switch to C++ a few weeks ago. This means that I'm not completely new to programming. I downloaded Visual C++ Express Edition 2008, and have already read all 12 chapters of C++ Beginners Guide (well the …
Hello! I have a piece of software called X-Mouse Button Control, and its able to intercept mouse events. The website for my mouse had this instead of a driver specifically for the mouse. In the program, I am able to "Intercept" the functions of Leftclick, Rightclick, ect, globally for windows. …
Whenever I run Latale Online(Online game using Xtrap) I click start everything seems to run fine then nothing , seems like program just closes itself , I need help fixing this problem I went on the game forums but they dont know how to fix it so I figured out …
We are going to submit our C++ project on a game, which resembles Classic VideoGame game "Battle Rush", by next week, but we don't know much more about how to make artificial intelligence of the enemy tanks. So do you have any idea that how to update and move those …
Hello, me again. Sorry for asking such a silly question, but I need the consultation of you guys, experts in my sights. :D Well, basically, I've been fiddling around a lot with C++, looking at various tutorials at the internet, making simple programs such as Calculators, password-protected stuff which spit …
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I'm in the market for a Blackbird or similar system, new or used, but the newer the better. Let me know. [email]jdietz@flash.net[/email]
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